Photos from the Claire Voyant / God Module / Grendel / Tesseract7 show are up. For some reason, the webcast for that show sounded awful: it was clipping like mad. I have no idea how it could have gone wrong in that way while still sounding fine in the main room. I guess the settings on the webcast compressor need more tweaking. Sigh...
Tesseract7 and Claire Voyant were enjoyable, but I really can't understand why ``bands'' like God Module and Grendel even bother to tour: their entire (interchangeable) act is one guy screaming in a Cookie Monster voice while the other guy pretends to play keyboards on top of their pre-recorded song. Someone said ``look, it's Milli Vanilli!'' but that's totally unfair to Milli Vanilli: at least they danced.
Cookie Monster Karaoke. This is what ``industrial'' has become.
Ick, I thought Claire Voyant was simply boring, but liked Grendel and God Module.
And of course the kareoke aspect was too funny.
Of course I went to see the Mutants earlier and they were much more entertaining than all the bands at the DNA that night.
Google currently has no hits for "Cookie Monster Karaoke". Fun things that come to mind:
- someone should name a band that.
- better yet, dub real Sesame Street Cookie Monster clips over crap industrial music.
- start googlebombing DNA with CMK links.
- make up fake CMK posters/flyers. Post them when crap industrial bands play. Subtle insider joke or something.
GGFH does a song about the Cookie Monster, but I suppose that doesn't qualify.
Maybe they can start with a version of "Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco". That should make jwz happy.